Season 12 Episode 3

Brian Rittenberry tugged at our heartstrings with the story of his wife’s battle with cancer. Thankfully she pulled through and was present at her husband’s American Idol 2013 audition, where he sang “Let It Be.”
 
But how far does the Jasper, Georgia native make it? Even a good heart doesn't always win out and Brian was eliminated in the first night of Hollywood...

Where was this handsome singing doctor when we were in the hospital? Dr. Calvin Peters charmed the pants off of the American Idol 2013 judges with his great bedside manner and soulful rendition of Maxwell’s “Whenever, Wherever, Whatever.”

But will we be seeing the good doctor in the Season 12 Top 40?

Sadly, Calvin is not one of the lucky singers to make it past Hollywood...

This firefighter got the temperature rising during the Baton Rouge auditions on American Idol 2013. Dustin Watts’s first question from the judges came from Nicki Minaj, who (of course) asked, “Do you have a girlfriend?”
 
After enduring the on-the-spot moment, he stunned the judges with a rousing rendition of Garth Brooks’s “She’s Every Woman.”...

American Idol love an underdog, and curly-haired rocker Gabe Brown is certainly not the type of contestant we see a lot of on the show. It must be the hair and laid-back attitude, but we get a whiff of Season 10 favorite Casey Abrams from this growling vocalist.
 
But how far does this avid cookie baker make it in Season 12? He passes the a capella round of the first night of Hollywood...

While we made already made our first (and very early) prediction as to who is going to win American Idol 2013, the numbers on YouTube don’t lie. So we could end up being totally off the mark in the end if YouTube vides are any indication of who will win American Idol this year.

If you go strictly by digits on the most number of views on YouTube, the winner this season could...